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the line as is to lie on the water, and its effect will 

 be excellent for a time. I have not found the 

 method to answer for a whole day's fishing, but it 

 lasts for an hour or two, and the rag can be applied 

 again from time to time if the line shows a tendency 

 to sink. I have suggested gentles as the bait for 

 the style of fishing; but if chub be the quarry an 

 even better bait is paste made up of bread and 

 cheese ; it sticks very well on the hook if it be not 

 too soft, and chub are very fond of it. I generally 

 make my bread-paste first, and add a small piece 

 of cheese to each pellet as is required. Chub like 

 a big mouthful, and a piece as big as the bowl of 

 an egg-spoon is not too large. Other chub baits 

 are small frogs, tiny eels, or elvers, as they are 

 called when migrating, strawberries, cherries, slugs, 

 caterpillars, and, in fact, anything. I have caught 

 them on every bait I ever tried, I think, not ex- 

 cluding pike-baits. 



The method described is not applicable to chub 

 fishing only. All fish are at times best approached 

 from a distance, especially when the water is not deep 

 In the shallower broads of Norfolk it is the usual 

 thing to fish for bream, roach, and rudd twenty or 

 thirty yards away. This is due to the fact that one 

 cannot approach the shoals of fish in a boat without 

 alarming them. When the water is not much more 



